The 1935 Nuremberg Rally

The Rally of Freedom (10th-16th September)

This rally celebrated the reintroduction of compulsory military service in defiance of the Treaty of Versailles.

A new feature of the 1935 rally was the use of the National Socialist Symphony Orchestra (often referred to as the Nationalsozialistische Symphonie-Orchester or NSRSO).
They played a central role in providing the musical backdrop for the regime's propaganda events especially in the Opera House and Luitpold Hall.
Hitler and Josef Gœbbels regarded Anton Bruckner's music as "magnificent music for Party occasions".

At a speech in the Opera House, the orchestra can be seen top-right of the image

The most significant meeting of the rally took place on the 15th September in the House of Culture where Göring announced what were to be known as the "Nuremberg Race laws".

They were a set of two racist and antisemitic statutes that legally stripped German Jews of their citizenship and criminalized marriage or sexual relations between Jews and non-Jewish Germans.

A visual guide created by the Nazi regime to define a person's "race" based on their family tree

These laws transformed Jews into stateless subjects, providing the legal foundation for their systematic persecution and the eventual events of the Holocaust.

It was also announced that the swastika was now the official emblem of the German state.